Tag: virtualization

VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today they had formed a strategic partnership under which they will launch a vSphere-based cloud service that runs on AWS.
Called VMware Cloud on AWS, it will be fully available by mid-2017. Invite-only betas will begin earlier in the year.

With Citrix Synergy taking place this week in Las Vegas, let’s take a moment to step back and remember the Citrix of yesteryears.
Founded in 1989, Citrix came of age in a world where Steve Jobs led NeXT and cellphones were the size of bricks.

Birst, a provider of cloud BI and analytics, debuted a new product delivery and consumption framework today called Networked BI.
The company is hoping that this is a concept with industry legs: It's building its next-generation of BI products on this platform.

Developers outside of Microsoft will be able to experiment for the first time with new classes of applications that run partly on Windows, partly on Linux.
This is a result of Microsoft's public release today of its third preview of Windows Server 2016.
It’s a new phase in the relationship between Microsoft and Docker Inc.,

After a few decades of covering the technology industry, déjà vu becomes an affliction one learns to live with and ignore, like a karbunkle or Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, the leading industry players in the emerging field of containerization formed a foundation.

The ideal of containerization is that workloads may be distributed safely across multiple platforms and orchestrated through a common portal. “Big data” is arguably the biggest workload of all, with some organizations now visualizing their data warehouses in terms of petabytes.

In the strange and sometimes ridiculous parlance that technologists have created for themselves, a stack is a collection of technologies that interoperate with one another to provide a platform for running services and applications.

Server-based applications built for Linux and packaged in Docker containers will be able to run on a Windows platform. This a result of Docker Inc.’s release today of its Docker 1.6 package, which features a Windows-based Docker client console contributed to the project by Microsoft itself.

Just when companies are finally mastering the definition of hybrid clouds, Accenture claims there is a new paradigm on the horizon. It predicts the next wave of hybrid clouds will be "Intelligent Business Clouds." And that's more than some vague marketing idea — or so it claims.

At some point soon, you and your colleagues will likely wonder whether you need to make a fundamental change to your IT infrastructure ... at least if you want your organization to be effective and remain competitive.

A two-year-old technology is at the spearhead of a genuine revolution in data center architectures, for both software and hardware. With yesterday's release by the Docker organization of open source tools for orchestrating the deployment of containerized applications anywhere from a data center cluster to a single laptop, the very